Acevedo just released his memoir, Diario de una puta humilde (Erizo Editorial). He is currently at work on a novel, el Oneronauta, and at work on the anthology Los colmillos de la muerte: antologíapuertorriqueña de cuento gótico, espíritus nocturnos, vampiros urbanos y otros vicios de sangre, which he will coedit with Puerto Rican writer Ana María Fuster Lavín.

Vázquez is a Bronx-born writer of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. His first novel, Buzzand Israel, will be republished in 2013, and his second, Contraband, was published in 2010 by Rebel Satori Press. Vázquez also co-wrote From Macho to Mariposa (Lethe, 2011) with Charles Rice-González.

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The Canisius College Joseph J. Naples ’41 Conversations in Christ & Culture Lecture and Performance Series presents Miroslav Volf, founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, on Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge of the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center. Volf’s talk is free and open to the public.

Keith Stolzenburg, CPA, managing partner in the Buffalo office of Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, will be honored as the Outstanding Accountant in Western New York at the 59th annual Canisius College Accounting Society Banquet on Thursday, April 23 at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens. Cocktails are at 5:30 p.m., dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.

Canisius College presents "Religion and Politics in Poland and in the USA: A Comparitive Study," a lecture by Paulina Napierata, PhD, on Thursday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge of the Richard E. Winter '42 Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.